MERN Stack Contracts in England

MERN Stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring MERN Stack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MERN Stack over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 536 607
Rank change year-on-year +39 +71 +112
Contract jobs citing MERN Stack 5 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.018% 0.036% 0.038%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.082% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 17
10th Percentile £456 £375 -
25th Percentile £458 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +10.53% -19.15%
75th Percentile £473 £600 £650
90th Percentile £477 £648 £703
UK median daily rate £473 £514 £475
% change year-on-year -8.07% +8.21% -12.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

MERN Stack falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,108 7,610 10,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.26% 21.29% 22.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,202 5,302 7,692
10th Percentile £355 £356 £380
25th Percentile £413 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £511 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.31% -1.82% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 248 136
10th Percentile £31.25 £23.80 £32.88
25th Percentile £45.63 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £58.15 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -6.96% +13.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.44 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +15.21%

MERN Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MERN Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MERN Stack in England

MERN Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MERN Stack in England.

Daily rate trend for MERN Stack in England

MERN Stack
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MERN Stack within the England region over the 6 months to 20 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +3 5 £465 +20.00% 3
North East - 4 £465 -
North West +5 1 £465 +20.00% 2
MERN Stack
UK

MERN Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) GitLab
1 5 (100.00%) gulp
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 5 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 5 (100.00%) Apache CXF
1 5 (100.00%) Dropwizard
1 5 (100.00%) Express.js
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) JAX-RS
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) MEAN Stack
1 5 (100.00%) Mongoose
1 5 (100.00%) Node.js
1 5 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (100.00%) React
1 5 (100.00%) Sequelize
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) Open Source
1 5 (100.00%) Operational Stability
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform